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Hundreds of students protested outside the high school Wednesday morning, chanting for a raise in the Base Student Allocation.
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The budget — which uses 100% of the district's unrestricted fund balance and still includes $7.8 million in cuts to staff and programs — was approved in an 8-1 vote Monday.
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Borough Mayor Peter Micciche said he has been in talks with state officials about solutions and funding for a long-sought school building project in the South Peninsula community of Kachemak-Selo.
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In a board meeting Monday and joint session with the Borough Assembly Tuesday, school board members continued to discuss a tentative budget that accounts for no increased funding from the state. “We’re hopeful that this isn’t the budget that’s gonna last,” Board Vice President Jason Tauriainen said.
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The legislature failed to override Gov. Dunleavy's veto of a $680 per-student funding increase by just one vote. The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will now craft a budget with no legislative funding increase in advance of a May 1 deadline to present a balanced budget.
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Two Kenai Peninsula Borough School District employees were recently nominated for National Life Group’s LifeChanger of the Year award, which recognizes and awards outstanding K-12 educators and employees. One of this year's nominees is Ryan Kocher, head custodian at Seward High School.
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Kachemak Selo has been waiting on a new school for more than a decade, and in 2016 the school district received millions in DEED grant money to do that. On Tuesday, the Borough Assembly voted to transfer that grant to the state's Department of Commerce to remove match and design requirements.
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will host its second annual virtual Indigenous Language Film Festival this Thursday. Sixteen student-made films will highlight the Sugt’stun language and two dialects of the Dena’ina language.
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A letter from the U.S Department of Education says the state disproportionately reduced funding to three Alaska school districts when it received federal COVID-19 relief funds. That includes $5 million to KPBSD, which the feds say the state must make a plan to remedy.
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The agreements include a 3.5% raise for teachers and a 6% raise for support staff. The parties chose a one-year extension, rather than a normal three-year contract, because of uncertainties about education funding.